M 4.5 in China on 10 May 2024 01:52 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1428101
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 37.2283 , 74.72
Event Date: 10 May 2024 01:52 UTC
10 May 2024 09:52 Local
Exposed Population:
2 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 10 May 2024 03:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.5 (Afghanistan)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Afghanistan= 7.5; Pakistan= 5.7; Tajikistan= 5.1; China= 3.6

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mxn4 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),